On Tuesday, Sports Illustrated posted a postmortem on the Manny Machado signing, and it answers a few questions about how the whole thing went down.
In the process, it’s hard not to feel some empathy for the Chicago White Sox.
And the villain in it all — big surprise — is the unquestioned asshat of the suite class, San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller.
You can be forgiven for not even realizing that Preller was still the GM in San Diego, and that’s not an snarky crack at the Padres’ small media imprint.